Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-18
WASHINGTON.
The Edmunds Postal TeIe-
graph Bill.
VARIOUS PENSION BILLS.
Appropriation of $75, 5,OOO, 900.
New Pension Bills Intro
duced and Passed.
Special to the Herald bv the Assoctdted pvss,y
SENATE

special to the Herald on the Assoctdted Pvessl
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, January l7.-Edmupds
called attention to the bill introduced
by him and referred to the Postoff;ce
Committee, providing for governments
postal telegraphy. He wished the COM
mlttee to report it either favorably or
unfavorably, so that he might try 70
get the judgment Of the Senate upon il.
The Senate pension appropriation bill ).
appropriating SIS, ,0OO, 900, was taken nm
and passed, with only few immatsrisr
amendments. The army appropristiou
bill was then taken up, and was passed.
with few unimpor,ant amendments.
HOUSE.
A bill was Introduced in the Hou.s
to-day by Lowering, of Massachusetts
granting pension of $25 q month 70.
Walt Whitman. Lowering states that
Whitman has made no application for
the pension, but that the bill was intro
duced at the request of number of the
poets friends in Massac husetts.
Abill was introduced by Herman. Of
Oregon, proposing a constitutional
amendment for the election of United
States Senators by the people Of the
States.
Mr.. Watson of Indiana on behalf of
the committee on invalid pensions.
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
bill for the relief of dependent parents
and honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors who are now disabled and depen-
dent upon their own labor for support.
The bill passed. yeas l79. nays 76. II
provides that In considering pension
claims of dependent parents the fact and
cause OF death and the fact that the sol-
dier left no widow or minor. facts
are to be shown as required by law. 1t
shall be necessary only to show that
such parents are without other present
means OF support than their own manual
labor or the contributions of others not
legally bound for their support. Pro.
vlded that no pension under this act
shall commence prior to it's passage.
Section 2 provides that all psr-
sons who served three months
or more in the military or naval
service of the United States in apv war
in which the United States has be. n en-
gagged and who have been honorablv
discharged therefrom and who are now
or who may hereafter be suffering from
mental or physicl disability not the re-
suit of their own vicious habits or gross
carelessness which incapacitates them
from the performance of labor or in such
a degree as to render them unable to
earn their support, and who are depen.
dent upon their daily labor for support,
shall, upon making due proof of the fact
according to such rules and regulations
as the Secretary of the Interior NAV
provide, in pursuance of this act be
placed on the list of invalid pensiouer.
of the United States. and be entitled to
receive for such total inability to provide
their substance by daily labor, twelve
dollars per month, and such pension
shall commence from the date of filing of
application in the pension Office UPON
proof that the disability then existed
and continue during the existence
OF the same in the degree
herein provided. This act shall
not apply to persons of political
disability, or to any persons whose dis.
ease wins incurred while engaged in mil.
itary service against the United States.
Eldridge, of Michigan, on behalf of
the Committee on Pensions. moved that
the rules be suspended aud the House
concur in the Senate amendment to the
Mexican Pension bill.
The motion to suspend the rules and
concur in the Senate amendment was
agreed to. Yeas 243, nays 5. The Lill
now only requires the Presidential ap-
proval to become a law 1t provides
that pension of IS month shall be
paid to all the surviving officers and en-
listed men including marines, militia and
volunteers of the military. and naval
services of the United States who being
only enlisted actually served sixty DAYS
with the army or navy of the United
States in Mexico or on the coasts or
frontiers thereof or enroute thereto in
war with that nation, or were actually
engaged in battle in said war and were
honorably discharged, and to such off,
GERS and sailors as may have been per.
y AA"ASA Az ohy ieoOiutkul Vi SUu-
gress Tor any special service in said war
and surviving widows of such officers
and enlisted men. Provided that such
widows have not remarked. Provided
also that every such officer, enlisted
man or widow who is OF may become
sixiy-two years Of age or who is
or may become subject to any disa-
blllty or dependency equivalent to some
cause prescribed or recognized by the
pension laws of the United States as
sufficient reason for the allowance of o
pension shall be entitled to the bene-
fits of this act. But it shall not be
held to include any person not within
the rule of age or disability or depend
ency herein defined, or who incurred
such disability while in any manner
voluntarily engaged in aiding or abet-
ting the late rebellion against the au.
thority of the United States. Section
47l6, Revised Statutes is repealed so
far as it related to this act or to pen
Si0nars undar fbic AJiourvod